linux-kernel - [ 115/133] mempolicy: fix refcount leak in mpol_set_shared

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Date:	Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:52:21 +0900
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [ 115/133] mempolicy: fix refcount leak in mpol_set_shared_policy()

3.5-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>

commit 63f74ca21f1fad36d075e063f06dcc6d39fe86b2 upstream.

When shared_policy_replace() fails to allocate new->policy is not freed
correctly by mpol_set_shared_policy().  The problem is that shared
mempolicy code directly call kmem_cache_free() in multiple places where
it is easy to make a mistake.

This patch creates an sp_free wrapper function and uses it. The bug was
introduced pre-git age (IOW, before 2.6.12-rc2).

[mgorman@...e.de: Editted changelog]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/mempolicy.c |   15 +++++++++------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2151,12 +2151,17 @@ mpol_shared_policy_lookup(struct shared_
 	return pol;
 }
 
+static void sp_free(struct sp_node *n)
+{
+	mpol_put(n->policy);
+	kmem_cache_free(sn_cache, n);
+}
+
 static void sp_delete(struct shared_policy *sp, struct sp_node *n)
 {
 	pr_debug("deleting %lx-l%lx\n", n->start, n->end);
 	rb_erase(&n->nd, &sp->root);
-	mpol_put(n->policy);
-	kmem_cache_free(sn_cache, n);
+	sp_free(n);
 }
 
 static struct sp_node *sp_alloc(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
@@ -2295,7 +2300,7 @@ int mpol_set_shared_policy(struct shared
 	}
 	err = shared_policy_replace(info, vma->vm_pgoff, vma->vm_pgoff+sz, new);
 	if (err && new)
-		kmem_cache_free(sn_cache, new);
+		sp_free(new);
 	return err;
 }
 
@@ -2312,9 +2317,7 @@ void mpol_free_shared_policy(struct shar
 	while (next) {
 		n = rb_entry(next, struct sp_node, nd);
 		next = rb_next(&n->nd);
-		rb_erase(&n->nd, &p->root);
-		mpol_put(n->policy);
-		kmem_cache_free(sn_cache, n);
+		sp_delete(p, n);
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&p->mutex);
 }


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